Monday, October 22, 2007

If you are using a dual boot system with Ubuntu and Windows, you can clearly notice the limitations Linux has. And for many (myself included), Linux is extremely difficult. After awhile I came to the conclusion that I didn’t need ubuntu at all, but I still loved to look and feeling, after searching for ways to make my windows computer have that gnome feeling this is what I found:Start with the visual style, if you haven’t already install Uxtheme Multipatcher, this will remove the limitations on your system, in order to install new themes. Then download the Human Visual Style Ubuntu Linux.

Go to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes and safe your download theme in there.

Now right click on your Desktop and click on Properties. Go to Appearance and select Human as the theme.

10 comments:

Anonymous
said...

This a great article with a very uneducated starting. I admire the work and also the fact that you post this, however I'm not impressed with the fact that Linux is limited, there is so much to learn from this world of Community, forums and freedom. having the Ubuntu look-n-feel is just the start.

Yes, it's extremely difficult for you to use.Microsoft did everything in its power to ensure you and mostly everyone else were taught how to use their products, so that any potential competitor is automatically "difficult" by simply being different.

I don't see how a truly new user could find Ubuntu any harder that Windows.If anything, it's easier by at least an order of magnitude.

Thanks for this interesting, if ill-educated post. I expect you have rubbed up a lot people the wrong way; you were probably trying to express something else. For instance, Windows-only PC games will undoubtedly work better in Windows -- no one denies that -- and if you have an irreplaceable investment in Windows like that, then it makes sense to call Ubuntu limited.

However, I find it ironic that the know-how required to make Windows look like Ubuntu exceeds that which is needed to familiarise yourself with the Ubuntu operating system.

It's as if you say, "I can't play expertly on the guitar without practising every day, so instead I'll devote the same amount of time to mastering Guitar Hero."

I hope that since posting this you have given some thought to returning to Ubuntu. You are obviously quite a capable computer user and I expect you would find Linux a richly rewarding OS before long.

I have been in this game for over twenty years now. I have seen first hand the collusion between big money players like Intel and MS (anyone remember Win98 and how much faster it ran on AMD systems over Intel systems, before the final release. Then when the first release hit, all of a sudden AMD processors could not run Win98 and it took MS over two weeks to come out with an "AMD Patch"). Tell me this... "How does a specific platform of hardware go from smoking its competition, and leaving it in the dust; to not even being capable of starting the engine?"

Could it be that some Pirates of Silicon Valley don't play well with others?

In over twenty years I have used PCDos, DR.Dos, MSDos, OS2, Apple II, Mac, Windows 3, Windows 3.1, Wind95, Win98, WinNT, Win2000, Slackware Linux (the early days) Win XP, OpenSuSE Linux, Windows Vista and Ubuntu as well as dabbling with Uxix, and FreeBSD. With that said, MS only has one thing on their side...The US Government: always has and most likely always will. It is an inferior OS, but when you have the 8000 pound gorilla in your corner, who is going to stop you from doing what you please.

Ubuntu is so easy, everyone of my kids ages 6 - 20 recently got onto our home computer (after I blew away XP and replaced it with Ubuntu 10.04) and without missing a beat, familiarized themselves with the location of everything and took off.